Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

(2017) A. Arneth et al.   Nature Geoscience

An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

(2016) Valerio Avitabile et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   Nature Geoscience

The decadal state of the terrestrial carbon cycle: Global retrievals of terrestrial carbon allocation, pools, and residence times

(2016) A. Anthony Bloom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

(2016) Peter Potapov et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

(2016) Robert J. Zomer et al.   Scientific Reports

Relevance of methodological choices for accounting of land use change carbon fluxes

(2015) Eberhard Hansis et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions

(2015) Hanqin Tian et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

(2015) Maurizio Santoro et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland

(2015) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries

(2014) Helmut Haberl et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Seeing the forest beyond the trees

(2014) Sassan Saatchi et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest

(2014) Benjamin D. Stocker et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

(2013) Yude Pan et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

(2013) Martin Thurner et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral

(2012) Ernst-Detlef Schulze et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

(2012) A. Baccini et al.   Nature Climate Change

Harvesting in boreal forests and the biofuel carbon debt

(2011) Bjart Holtsmark   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Holocene carbon flux histories of the world’s peatlands

(2011) Zicheng Yu   HOLOCENE

The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation

(2011) Yadvinder Malhi   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age

(2011) I. C. Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2011) T. Le Toan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Land Availability for Biofuel Production

(2010) Ximing Cai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

(2010) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   HOLOCENE

Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

(2010) P. C. West et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The global loss of net primary production resulting from human-induced soil degradation in drylands

(2009) Michael Zika et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

(2009) J. Pongratz et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

(2009) Elena Shevliakova et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Systematic long-term observations of the global carbon cycle

(2009) R.J. Scholes et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Carbon protection and fire risk reduction: toward a full accounting of forest carbon offsets

(2008) Matthew D Hurteau et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Simulating effects of land use changes on carbon fluxes: past contributions to atmospheric CO2 increases and future commitments due to losses of terrestrial sink capacity

(2008) K. M. Strassmann et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY